Sunday, November 11, 2007

Project X Paragraph: MARC

I think Project X is about the paradox of cultural self-reflection. By distancing ourselves from the "audience" which might be 50,000 years in the future, we can say almost anything is true, can reflect upon ourselves from almost any angle, can reduce our culture or the entire world to a stack of "human knowledge" without any repercussions whatsoever (the reviews won't be coming out for 500 centuries).

I think this is a show for the future, that the audience today will merely be a witness to the preparation of something for later. We are creating an artistic time capsule, an event that will not be completed until years later. A theatrical time machine. At the same time I think it is also a look at the past, an examination of what brought us to this point. It is archeological dig into ourselves, today, now, and it should be as pompous and narrow-minded as possible.

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